Posted on 01/26/2019 8:29:56 AM PST by Kaslin
This has happened before, back in the eighties. One of the best doctors in this city ended his life with cancer in federal prison because he was targeted by the feds and finally set up. The man had a gift. I spoke at his memorial service in his church. I thought I was the only one who would say something good about him beyond the family reminiscences but there was a whole line of people there, several from our local white elite. All of us had basically the same testimony. It went, “I was getting test after test and fading and no one could give a diagnosis when Dr. Williams came into my room on rounds and looked at my chart, looked at me, and called in a specialist and told him that I had (any of several different things) and to get me to the OR right now.” Dr Freddy Williams would look at you and know what you needed. He saved many lives that were on their way out. In my case I was refused treatment at the ER and was carried in and sent home three times. Wife said I was grey and I was having a hard time breathing. She remembered Dr Freddy had given me an exam for a job and called him. He met us at the hospital, looked at me through the car window and started giving orders to the ER folks. He had determined with a glance that I was bleeding internally. The doc who removed my spleen told me I had had about three hours did I not get to the OR. Freddy’s problem with the feds was that he came back here from med school with a mission to serve his neighbors in the black community. When he prescribed pain killers for his patients relatives or neighbors would steal them or the patient would get more from the street and die from overdose. The feds got him because he was easy, not hiding anything, and used him for an Example.
The war against drug companies geared up for 2020.
The smarmy little git who cut off my prescription seemed to think so.
from occupied ga wrote: “From personal experience with several major surgeries unless you enjoy severe pain you need something stronger than Advil for the first couple of post surgical days, but you really have no desire to continue the stuff once you can manage the pain with NSAIDS. For one thing they constipate you and that may seem funny, but it isn’t. And second if your pain is severe this totally counteracts any high you could possibly get.”
Absolutely. Two neck fusion surgeries. Two rotator cuff surgeries. Separated tendons in the hand. Been there.
The first neck fusion, doc got upset at me for stopping the pain killers. Since then, I’ve developed a pattern.
Get home, take a pain pill. Take another at bedtime. Another at daybreak. After that, it’s tylenol only. Works for me.
But, we’ve been programmed to take the entire prescription. They don’t read the label that says take only when necessary.
Quote (dsc): The very first thing we need to do is take effective pain control away from veterans.
Quote (BipolarBob): There's nothing funnier than seeing old veterans writhing in pain, eh?
I’d like to see the grinning drug warriors at the DEA forced to endure agonizing, unrelenting, untreated pain in a laboratory for at least 30 consecutive days as a precondition for being hired. If anyone dies from being denied effective pain treatment as a result of DEA actions, then it’s another 30 days each in the torture laboratory for all agents involved.
Ah, yes, and cracking down on doctors will do nothing to stop that. In fact, it may increase their business. As usual, government makes all problems worse.
It’s the only thing that helps congress make it through the day.
pain is completely subjective....tell people they need this idiotic new drug, they will find the “need”...
Had to take a friend of mine in with stage four cancer because the drugs had stopped her up.
No, indeed. Not funny.
I'm thinking of starting a sardonic ping list with you two as charter members.
or am I being facetious?
In all hands, rat poison is poison - does it follow that the feds must decree how much "America" "needs"?
the FDA thinks that what America needs is an opioid ten times stronger than Fentanyl.
It's quite possibly what a class of patients needs.
How did such a collectivist screed get on Townhall?
Look
Kids
Drugs derived from the opium poppy separate your mind from
Body. They are effective for severe pain.
The opiates are toxic and affect breathing
They also
Cause internal blockage and constipation.
There is nothing pleasurable or “ good time “‘about them.
Really the ONLY ONE is THC for fun and pleasure. But it is very powerful and CBD is a good non psychoactive brother
cannibis. Is NON TOXIC. nothing else is
The flowers are pretty but should not be smoked.
The powers that be now make perfect edibles. Highly effective at 10mg
Cost is like 1$.
There is no downside. Other than getting tired of it because you don’t take days off
One has to simply learn discipline and it’s a most increíble tool
With the modern candy and chocolate. Everything is in 2.5-10 mg pieces
You can feel a 2.5 They key is UNDERDOING it
Oh and WAIT ONE HOUR MIN
What? Give me a break, "opiod crisis" was not even a factor in the election.
Tons of the stuff. Go out and google it. There are dozens of articles regarding this topic. Fort Knox not only holds gold, but tons of raw opium and morphine.
So, basically, if there are people struggling in a time of crisis...Uncle Sugar's got the relief. Population beholden to the fed man.
“Addicts to be referred to henceforth as junkies are not victims. They get into their condition of their own free will, and blaming anyone else for their condition is a form of lying. The have only themselves to blame”
+1
OK, for the 25 year old.
The 16 year old? The kid who comes home to an empty house every day after school. Who has a mom who married some creep he hates. Who has a dad who remarried some other psychotic woman and immediately began pumping out family #2?
On top of that, the parents are clueless about drugs. Never talked to him, don't know the risks and can't get their heads out of their phones long enough to have a serious conversation with him anyway?
That kid with lots of internal pain, who has the foresight of a snail and who LIVES IN AND IS BEING RAISED BY A VERY, VERY toxic culture--that's the kid I worry about. He doesn't understand addiction and that it's a lifelong, life altering and life stunting choice.
I knew kids like that growing up. A few of 'em are dead. Nearly every one of them never came back. In fact, a good friend of mine just went back to our hometown for a vacation and she came back and said, "the entire place is on heroin".
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